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...which comes to fairly tame conduct when one considers that after ten days of the scare, the motives, the scope and the murderer(s) remained unknown. Yet there is an astonishing amount of pure wide-eyed trust that people give their social structures, no matter how fragile they are shown to be. What the public has done in the face of this particular emergency is simply to shift its faith temporarily from the pillmakers and sellers to several other social institutions: the Government, the police, the media. These institutions are hardly those that the public always believes...
...bison, and one of them was born last week," he says happily, "... and baby geese, baby turkeys, plus I have two bears and there's alligators, and we're raising all kinds of ducks. I'm making a garden of Eden. It's amazing how tame things will get when you're not trying to kill them. Countries should act the same." For the moment, in this private place, Captain Outrageous, also known as the Mouth of the South, has become Peaceable Ted. Naturally, he takes his peace the way he fought his competition...
...transition in Right Place from gripping accounts of such events as the Kennedy assassination to philosophical reflections on the news business makes for a rather tame climax. But a book about this unique career in TV news would not be complete without some explanation of why a man would refuse the salary and glamor of the network anchor chair. And in spite of the plodding conclusion. MacNeil's book remains on balance a lively and informative work...
Inflation will be easier to tame if Western nations work to encourage more energy conservation and new production. While most European governments have levied gasoline taxes of $1 per gal. or more, the U.S. has flinched at raising its federal 4?-per-gal. tax even slightly. "Conservation of gasoline in the U.S. should be pushed a bit faster and further than market prices alone have done," says James McKie, professor of economics at the University of Texas. He supports a federal gasoline tax of at least 10% of the price of a gallon...
...Supreme Court's expanding case load seems as tough to tame as the federal budget. Again this year it was the largest ever; the Justices heard arguments on 184 of the 5,178 cases appealed to them. And the overflowing judicial In boxes meant another flurry of decisions in the final weeks as the Justices just managed to meet their goal of recessing before the July 4 weekend. The 27 rulings handed down last week generally reflected the themes sounded throughout the term. In one decision, for example, a moderately retarded Pennsylvania woman was denied federal review...